Defense

Reasonable Defensive Expectations – because there are no shutouts in basketball This article is republished with permission. The original article was written by Don Siko and appears at Reasonable Defensive Expectations – because there are no shutouts in basketball. Finishing up some current thinking on charting individual player defensive accountability, we’d like to share one more thought on how coaches can use postgame defensive charting to zero ...

X Out Switch Screen the Screener Army Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert has assembled some clips of a defensive concept for defending Screen the Screener actions. This tactic allows the defender of the first screener on the cross screen to hedge a little longer. Zak has an outstanding site with posts on various coaching topics at www.pickandpop.net His You Tube channel has several videos ...

Bruce Weber Rush Conversion Defense Drill You probably already do something similar to this to work on conversion defense. To make communicating to to our players more clear, I like to use the term “conversion” when we are going from offense to defense and “transition” when we are going from defense to offense. I think that there are 3 key teaching ...

Wall Pick & Roll Defense Army Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert has assembled some clips of the Wall technique for defending pick and roll. Zak has an outstanding site with posts on various coaching topics at www.pickandpop.net His You Tube channel has several videos with various types of man to man plays, zone sets, and inbounds plays as well as clips on ...

Defending Baseline Inbound Plays with 1-3-1 This video of Holy Cross Men’s Assistant Coach TJ Rosene discussing a 1-3-1 defense for defending underneath inbound plays. At the time Coach Ferry gave this talk, he was an assistant at Monmouth. The content is located on the Glazier Coaching Vault. Sam’s entire presentation is available along with all of the basketball content in the Glazier Vault ...

Ball Screen Motion Dive Switch Army Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert has assembled some clips of the Dive Switch man to man defense technique against Ball Screen Motion. Zak has an outstanding site with posts on various coaching topics at www.pickandpop.net His You Tube channel has several videos with various types of man to man plays, zone sets, and inbounds plays as ...

Cincinnati’s Open Defensive Stance Army Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert has assembled some clips of Cincinnati’s Open Stance man to man defense technique under Coach Mick Cronin. Coach Cronin is now at UCLA. Zak has an outstanding site with posts on various coaching topics at www.pickandpop.net His You Tube channel has several videos with various types of man to man ...

Pick and Roll Defense: Stunting The following defensive stunting techniques came from the Encyclopedia of pick and roll defense playbook assembled by Chris Filios for Scott Peterman’s Basketball HoopScoop. It is paired with The Comprehensive Ball Screen Playbook as this week’s featured bundle. You can find out more about the bundle by clicking on this link: Encyclopedia of Pick and Roll Defense ...

Basketball Post Defense: Scram Switch Army Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Zak Boisvert posted these videos on his tremendous resource site for coaches. PickandPop.net Coach Boisvert has posted several videos of some of the better schemes he has seen. His You Tube channel is: Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel He also is also very active on Twitter: @ZakBoisvert There is a narration with the video, ...

Loading to the Basketball Army Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Zak Boisvert posted these videos on his tremendous resource site for coaches. PickandPop.net Coach Boisvert has posted several videos of some of the better schemes he has seen. His You Tube channel is: Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel He also is also very active on Twitter: @ZakBoisvert Editor’s Note from Brian.  There are two ...

Tim Jankovich Top Siding a Wide Pin Down Screen This defense technique for defending a wide pin down screen is with SMU Coach Tim Jankovich. The video is hosted on You Tube. You will need to be on a network that allows you to access that site. The video is two minutes and 33 seconds long. He discusses the position of the ball as to when they ...

NBA Red Defensive Coverage Army Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Zak Boisvert posted these videos on his tremendous resource site for coaches. PickandPop.net Coach Boisvert has posted several videos of some of the better schemes he has seen. His You Tube channel is: Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel He also is also very active on Twitter: @ZakBoisvert Editor’s Note from Brian.  The post is ...

Doubling the Low Post Loyola Chicago This article on the tactics used by Loyola Chicago to double team the low post was posted to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library by Matt Wheeler. Matt Wheeler has spent the last 10 years coaching in the Orlando, FL area. For the last 6 seasons he was at Olympia High School ...

Back Screen X Switch Tactic Army Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Zak Boisvert posted these videos on his tremendous resource site for coaches. PickandPop.net Coach Boisvert has posted several videos of some of the better schemes he has seen. His You Tube channel is: Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel He also is also very active on Twitter: @ZakBoisvert   Editor’s Note from Brian.  The post is ...

Teaching Your Defensive Philosophy This post was submitted by Coach Tom Kelsey.  Coach Kelsey has been a Head Coach at Belhaven University, Faulkner University, and Greater Atlanta Christian High School.  He has also been an assistant at LSU, Alabama, Murray State, and Lipscomb.  He played at Lipscomb under Coach Don Meyer. Does your team have a defensive identity? Do your players ...

Defending a Great Player Army Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Zak Boisvert has these notes on his tremendous resource site for coaches. PickandPop.net Coach Boisvert has posted several videos of some of the better schemes he has seen. His You Tube channel is: Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel He also is also very active on Twitter: @ZakBoisvert Editor’s Note from Brian.  The post is ...

ICE to Switch Defensive Coverage Army Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Zak Boisvert has put together some short clips with some NBA techniques for defending pick and rolls using a technique known as ICE to Switch Defensive Coverage. Coach Boisvert has posted several videos of some of the better schemes he has seen. His You Tube channel is: Zak Boisvert You Tube ...

Defensive Floor Balance Clinic Notes from: The Coach in the video is PGC Basketball Director Sam Allen. This video was filmed at a PGC/Glazier Basketball Coaching Clinic. You might not agree with this exact system, but I hope that it helps you think about ways to improve the way you teach and communicate your defensive conversion. One concept I like ...

Arkansas Pressing Principles This post contains some pressing principles employed by the Arkansas mens program. Adjust these to fit your players and philosophy and/or take bits and pieces to combine with what you already run. The diagrams and notes are from the “Full Court Pressing Defenses Playbook” assembled by Chris Filios. It is paired with the Houston ...

Pick and Roll Defense Army Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Zak Boisvert has put together some short clips with some NBA techniques for defending pick and rolls. Coach Boisvert has posted several videos of some of the better schemes he has seen. His You Tube channel is: Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel He also is also very active on Twitter: @ZakBoisvert He has ...

Tilt Pick and Roll Defense This ideas was contributed by Randy Sherman to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library. Coach Sherman s the owner and founder of Radius Athletics – a basketball coaching consulting firm – where he consults with basketball coaches at all levels on coaching philosophy, practice planning, Xs & Os and teaching a conceptual style of ...

Sean Miller Defensive Notes This post came from Army Men’s Assistant Zak Boisvert’s PickandPop.net site. The site has a lot of quality coaching ideas and information.  Definitely worth a look! Sean Miller – University of Arizona (Nike Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona).  Sent to Zak by Ash Arnott DEFENSIVE PHILOSOPHIES o Times are always changing. o IMPORTANT when developing your defensive philosophies: “How you teach it, ...

Defending the 3 Techniques and Strategies Clinic Video from: The Coach in the video is former Boise Sate Men’s Assistant Coach Phil Beckner This video was filmed at the PGC/Glazier Spring 2016 Chicago Clinic. Coach Beckner has had stops at Weber State, Nebraska, and the Oklahoma City Blue (NBA D-League)       Defending the 3 Techniques and Strategies

Veer Back Pick and Roll Defense This post was originally from Zak Boisvert on his basketball Coaching Website: Pick and Pop His You Tube channel has several videos with various types of man to man plays, zone sets, and inbounds plays. You can subscribe to receive an update when he posts a new video Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel You can follow him ...

Doubling The Low Post and Rotating This conversion defense drill was contributed by Mo Dahkil, former video coordinator for the Clippers and Spurs to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library. You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw These were Coach Dakhil’s comments about the post: Rotations are extremely difficult to nail down and ...

Jim Boone Defensive Teachings These notes came from Bob Starkey’s (Longtime D1 Assistant Coach–currently at Texas A & M) Basketball Coaching Blog, hoopthoughts.blogspot.com. Jim Boone of Delta State is one of the nation’s foremose teachers of the Pack Line Defense. Below is a list of key teaching points in Jim’s system. At the end of this story is the entire link ...

Chris Holtmann Conversion Defense System I am a big believer that half court defense starts full court and that you can’t be a great defensive team without being great in converting to defense to force your opponent to play against your half court defense. The video is 5 minutes of Ohio State Coach Chris Holtmann going through his Conversion Defense System. His ...

Brad Stevens Notes University of Maine Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert has assembled some notes from Brad Stevens at the 2016 Brayden Carr Coaches Clinic. The Brayden Carr Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization that works to raise money for children with seizure conditions. The charity was established by Rhode Island assistant coach Jim Carr and his wife ...

10 Commandments of Defense This post was written by Micah Hayes and posted with permission from PGCBasketball. Micah is the owner of ‘The Sweatbox Decatur’ and serves athletes through intense individual & group athletic performance training. Micah is also the strength & conditioning coach at Decatur High School. It has been said that the cornerstone of defense is not just effort but multiple effort. I ...

Icing a Side Pick and Roll This post contains videos of two defensive drills from Matt Woodley. At the time when the video was made, Matt was the Head Coach of the Iowa Energy of the NBA D League. (Now the G League). He is a former assistant for Tony Bennett at Washington State. For the 2017-18 season, he is on the Men’s Staff ...